EACHERS COLLEGE, founded in 1888, is one
of several colleges of Columbia Uni-
versity. It has its own board of trustees
and, as its name implies, its own purpose: the
preparation of men and women for posts as
teachers, supervisors, and school administrators.

Most of its students are graduates of other
colleges, schools of education, and universities.
The majority have had several years of ex-
perience as teachers, some as school execu-
tives. They come to Teachers College from all
parts of the United States, better to prepare
themselves for educational positions.

Here they may observe expert teaching from
the nursery school and kindergarten through
high school in the Horace Mann and Lincoln
Schools which are affiliated with the College;
they may use the many laboratories touching
educational theory, practice, and research at
every level from the nursery school child to
the adult; they may observe the work of New
College which offers undergraduate courses to
young men and women preparing to teach. In
addition to opportunities for practice teaching
and observation in public schools of New
York City and vicinity, students in Teachers
College have the opportunity to profit by the
wealth of cultural and educational facilities of
the metropolitan area.

Teachers College is dominated by no one
school of thought in religion, economics, soci-
ology, or education. Its faculty members, like
its students, come from many sections of the
nation. They represent differing philosophies
and practices in education. They are in agree-
ment, however, in believing that the traditional
American insistence on freedom of thought
and discussion provides the best insurance for
improvement of American education and per-
petuation of the nation’s ideals.